Eliot's Travels

The Singel - this short walk was one of gables and balustrades, baroque and rococo carvings, and even a little comedy. The agenda is mainly old merchant buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries along the Singel Canal.
Haarlemmerstraat No. 2 - 1843 corner building for life assurance company
No. 24 Vriesland with a baroque balustrade of a ship
No. 36 Zeevrugt (harvest of the sea) and its rococo balustrade of Mercury

Hoisting beams for the merchants to lift goods into their attics
No. 116 Huis met de Neuzen (house of the noses) - when house was being built in 1750s, friends of the owner offered to pay for the decoration, but only if they were allowed to include portraits of the owner and his two sons - quite cruel if you look closely!


No. 390 18th-century baroque house with two reclining figures of Apollo and Minerva
No. 423 Bushuis - Mannerist building from 1606 where the guild of crossbowmen once stored their equipment

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